On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Pierz <[email protected]> wrote: > Just came across this presentation: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc > > It's a bit long, but I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts who is > knowledgeable on QM. I don't follow the maths, but I kind of got the gist. > What intrigued me was his interpretation of QM and I'm wondering if anyone > can throw any more light on it. He makes a lot of jumps which are obviously > clear in his mind but hard to follow. He says that MWI is supportable by > the maths, but that he prefers a "zero universes" interpretation, according > to which we are classical simulations in a quantum computer. I'm not sure I > follow this. I mean, I can follow the idea of being a classical simulation > in a quantum computer, but I can't see how this is different from MWI, > except by the manoeuvre of declaring other universes to be unreal because > they can never practically interact with 'our' branch. I guess what > interested me was the possibility of a coherent alternative to MWI (because > frankly MWI scares the willies out of me), but in spite of what he said, I > couldn't see what it was... >
Thanks Pierz, I really enjoyed this talk. Maybe because of the speaker's background in computer science, I feel he speaks my language more than the "real" physicists. My naive impression, also influenced by Bruno's comp, is like you say that I don't see the difference between MWI and "zero universes". I tend to think that the worlds in MWI are the first-person views, and that there is only one mind, ultimately. On the other hand, I heard about the "transactional interpretation of QM" for the first time, which is also intriguing. Best, Telmo. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
